Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — ACCOUNTING FOR THE SURPLUS [ARTICLE]

ACCOUNTING FOR THE SURPLUS

Atlanta Constitution: In the United States, Government does its work of taxation thoroughly; every citizen is literally clothed in taxation, cap-a-pie, from head to foot. Hat and boot are taxed, and no garment between escapes, whether of wool or cotton, of flax or silk. Taxation covers the back, fills the belly and chains the limbs; what we wear, what we eat, what we work with. — Taxation begins in the cradle, and does not end in ’the grave, for even the tombstone is not spared. The body is wrapped in taxed flannel, and the body laid out in taxed linen. From the mother’s womb to the womb of the earth taxes pursue the sons of men, and pursue not in vain, for they overtake and despoil them. We, especially have taxes, direct and indirect; specific, advalorem and compound, taxes unknown and known, State taxes and County, municipal and corporation taxes; finally, to crown all, federal taxes. Last of all came Satan. As there is a time for every thing under the sun, so for any and everything under the sun there is also a tax.

Here, now is something to be proud of. How many on the Bench can say it? asks tne Harrisburg Patriot. Only a short time ago Judge Black said: — “When I am gone I want you to be able to say of me as was said of Samuel when he left the Judgeship, the record of which runs thus: ‘Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand lave I freceived any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.— And they said thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man’s hand.’ ” ♦ A bachelor and a epinster who had been schoolmates in youth, and were about the same age, met in ajter years, and the lady chancingjto remark that “men live a great deal faster than women,” the bachelor returned, “Yes, Maria. The last time we met, we were each twenty-four years old. Now lam over forty, and I hear you haven’t reached thirty yet. They never met again.—Glasgow Eve,g Times. A young man living in Leadville shipped to his littlebrother’jn St. Louis a choice donkey of the very diminutive species known as the Mexican burro. The agent, in making out his manifest, concluded that “burro” meant “bureau,” and reported accordingly to his superior, “one bureau missing and one jackass over.” 1 Old Joe Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, a red hot Republican sheet, declared before the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor that “the present tariff WAS FLEECING FARMERS, and they are beginning to understand it.” “Shakey,” said a Canal street clothier the other morning, mark up eberydings a ca-wor-ter of a tollar, und I put out a sign ‘Trade tollars taken here vor a hundret cents? ’’—Newark Call. “Did the child die under suspicious circumstances?” asked the coroner of a witness “No, I sir, it did not. It dietLunder ■ the back porch.”—Pittsburgh i Telegraph.